'The article presents an overview of all health-related panel studies in Germany. Four inclusion criteria were used: 1. a minimum of 2 survey waves were required; a cross sectional survey with a mortality follow-up, for example, would therefore not be included 2. the last wave must have been fielded within about the last ten years; 3. the sample must allow references to the general population in some fashion, may not consist only of respondents with a certain clinical diagnosis, and the survey instrument must include some behavioural items of relevance to social science research; 4. the academic research community must have ready access to the data at acceptable costs for individual researchers.' (author's abstract)|